[WEB4LIB] RE: USB Flash Drives

[Edward Spodick]

At 8:48 AM -0800 4/2/2005, Breakall, Scott wrote:
>This is just my experience, but I almost never stop the device before I
>remove my USB flash drive from either of my laptops, and I have had no
>trouble at all with either the flash drive or the computers.

I have lose some data files, perhaps due to the file not actually being done writing.
Probably I would have been fine if I just waited several more seconds before yanking.
Oh - and yes that was with XP.
I am always careful to 'properly' eject it first now.

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